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I offer massage and bodywork therapy in the Winston-Salem area.

My Story

I was introduced to massage through Reiki and other forms of energy healing. While the concept of these modalities intrigued me, I decided that I wanted to learn something more hands-on.

In 2011, I graduated from the Center for Massage & Natural Health in Weaverville, North Carolina. Since then, I've studied aromatherapy independently and through the School for Aromatic Studies in Chapel Hill.

I am a licensed massage and bodywork therapist in North Carolina (#16882), as well as a member in good standing of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) and the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA).

Bodywork for Person & Planet

My mission is to be a source of healing in the community and our shared ecosystem. I am committed to operating a zero waste and vegan business, and to sourcing wild-to-apothecary cosmetic supplies whenever possible.

Follow my journey as I connect micro-homesteading and permaculture to the work I'm doing here through my blog page:

Ritual can refer to repetitive behaviors we consciously or unconsciously engage in. It could include daily meditation or a morning cup of coffee. Maybe you observe solar or lunar holidays by spending some time outdoors experiencing nature. Ritual can also refer to more transpersonal, magical, or devotional work, such as the ritual ceremonies that have developed within Western mystery traditions. These rituals allow us to momentarily step out of our day-to-day lives and reprogram our minds on a more symbolic level.

The great thing about setting your magical intentions with Leo energy is that planning an intricate ritual isn't necessary. You are the temple. You are the Sun. Your life is the magical working. All the ingredients for success are already within. All you need to do on this auspicious day is set aside a few moments to yourself to feel it, to recharge in the sunlight or revel in your inner divinity.

In the United States alone, more than 29 million people have diabetes, and I'm one of them. Specifically I have type 2 diabetes, which was once also considered 'adult-onset' diabetes, but in today's world, people of all ages are experiencing this condition.

To the ancient Celts, Lughnasadh marks the death of an earth goddess and the beginning of Autumn. With the earliest Earth Overshoot Day ever recorded falling on this day as well, are we also looking at the death of the Earth and the Autumn of the Anthropocene?

Without a strong community of bards, storytellers, and guides, it's easy for us to get lost in our work with these characters. We get stuck in repetitive and toxic patterns, unable to move forward and unsure about why or how.

In some contemporary Pagan and other healing-oriented communities, the idea of having group spaces which are exclusive to either men or women (or more specific experiences of manhood or womanhood than that) can be controversial and perennial conflicts. Part of these conflicts I think stems from a scarcity mindset around healing.

How often should people receive massage? I get this question a lot, and the truth is that there's no single correct answer. It all depends on what you're hoping to accomplish and where you are on your journey to accomplishing it.

It's true that as individuals we have little power on society beyond our immediate impact on the commons. But as a movement of many individuals, we do have power. The idea of affecting institutional or industrial change is based on this power. Critically, these vectors of solutions are not exclusive to one another.

Permaculture design shouldn't be limited to creating a more sustainable world for humans. If we take our cues from nature, we see a complex system that has never been just about one species at the expense of all others.

If you receive a full body session from me, feel for this work or ask for it specifically. Let pure light energy uncover itself from within you. Connect to your essential source and leave the table more prepared to love yourself, your work, and the others in your life from this connection.

And whether it is a conventional topic or not, the reality of modern life on Earth is that humans have added a significant amount of plastic waste to the environment. How will we create alternatives to this system? How will we re-purpose the waste that already exists? These are questions already driving me.

As with apiculture, conventional vermiculture suffers from a dynamic informed by capitalist exploitation of farmed animal labor and an anthropocentric worldview that is ultimately destructive to the planet we live on. In our reckoning with modern life in the era of climate change, new dynamics of human-animal interactions are necessary, and vermiculture is no exception.

I've been looking for a solution to my composting needs since moving in to my new place. Having an open-air kitchen and yard waste pile isn't very feasible for my neighborhood, so I've needed to find something enclosed. After hearing a handful of really positive reviews about this model, I decided to check it out.

If 'conventional' permaculture can design small-scale animal agriculture systems in bold attempts to mimic the way nature works on her own, why can't we just bypass that step and design more directly in harmony with nature's impulses to begin with?

Conventionally speaking, neither permaculture nor bodywork are yet to my knowledge taught as fruits of the same tree. But bypassing this intrinsic interdisciplinary connection is increasingly difficult in the world we live in.

Doing our part as consumers, farmers, home gardeners, and community advocates, we can build up local food systems to replace unsustainable agribusinesses. With these food systems must come localized pollinator networks, and action that recognizes the interconnectedness of soil health, crop management, farmed bees, and wild bees along with other neighborhood pollinators.

Do you believe our world can be different? Do you believe we can grow food systems, pollinator networks, and multi-species communities built to empower and sustain one another? I do, and I'm developing the skill sets I need to better work on making these beliefs a lived reality.